Doctor Who - The Impossible Astronaut
Once again, I tingle with geekish joy as Doctor Who returns to our telly screens! And once again, that clever Mr Moffat has come up with a fiendish story that takes full advantage of the brain-bending possibilities that time travel provides.
It was lovely to see the Doctor in Monument Valley, although there was really no story-telling reason for them to be there. Still - pretty! The regular cast are still excellent, and it looks like they'll have some good dramatic stuff to get their teeth into again this year.
Moffat has given us plenty to chew over too, not least of which is the question of how the Doctor can escape being shot dead! The simplest way to get out of it would be to whip up some kind of time paradox which results in two of him existing in the same time stream, so that one of them has to go. In that case, maybe it's his other self that's in the space suit and does the shooting?
A creature that you forget as soon as you look away from it seems like an ingenious idea to me. Will Amy's ability to remember things come into play again here? And that dusty old control room that Rory and River found was the same as the one from last year's The Lodger. Was it these mysterious Silents who were hiding out on top of Craig's house? And what is their connection with the exploding Tardis and the end of the Universe, if any? Why does the Doctor have a "missing" 200 year gap? Who is the father of Amy's baby? Rory would be the obvious candidate, but is anything ever than simple in Moffat's world?
These and other questions will be answered in fiendishly surprising ways, I have no doubt. Roll on next week! :)
I was very pleased to see the dedication to Elisabeth Sladen at the front of the episode, and the tribute to her on CBBC was very nicely handled.
Now, I think I'll watch The Impossible Astronaut again while having tea and toast. Good old iPlayer! :)
It was lovely to see the Doctor in Monument Valley, although there was really no story-telling reason for them to be there. Still - pretty! The regular cast are still excellent, and it looks like they'll have some good dramatic stuff to get their teeth into again this year.
Moffat has given us plenty to chew over too, not least of which is the question of how the Doctor can escape being shot dead! The simplest way to get out of it would be to whip up some kind of time paradox which results in two of him existing in the same time stream, so that one of them has to go. In that case, maybe it's his other self that's in the space suit and does the shooting?
A creature that you forget as soon as you look away from it seems like an ingenious idea to me. Will Amy's ability to remember things come into play again here? And that dusty old control room that Rory and River found was the same as the one from last year's The Lodger. Was it these mysterious Silents who were hiding out on top of Craig's house? And what is their connection with the exploding Tardis and the end of the Universe, if any? Why does the Doctor have a "missing" 200 year gap? Who is the father of Amy's baby? Rory would be the obvious candidate, but is anything ever than simple in Moffat's world?
These and other questions will be answered in fiendishly surprising ways, I have no doubt. Roll on next week! :)
I was very pleased to see the dedication to Elisabeth Sladen at the front of the episode, and the tribute to her on CBBC was very nicely handled.
Now, I think I'll watch The Impossible Astronaut again while having tea and toast. Good old iPlayer! :)